There are certain metro areas in the United States about which people say “It’s a nice place to visit, but there’s no there there.” They mean that the town has no core — no beating heart, in a cultural sense. Some people are the same way. Some of them sit in high-level positions.
You can talk to an empty-suit manager for hours and come away with no idea what he or she believes in or stands for. That’s because the manager has cultivated the ability to be whomever he or she believes somebody more powerful wants him or her to be.
